...------------------------------------------------- TBP1 Task 2 Topic: Evaluate the benefits of pursuing a specific hobby. In today’s society and with life in general, we are consistently under an enormous amount of stress. We have more than enough responsibilities and in some cases we’re overwhelmed with the rigors of our careers. To remain healthy both mentally and physically we must realize that our bodies and souls need an outlet. Something that can take us away from the monotony and provide us with new or uniquely different challenges. Hobbies are avenues that we can explore to fill in the voids created by our day to day routines. I sometimes like to pause, just for a moment, and turn my attention to the fact that life is short! Sure we want to satisfy not only our individual needs but also those of the ones we care for, or the ones we feel responsible for. One factor sometimes I believe we fail to recognize, is that if we don’t take that moment to reflect, we’ll forget that for us to take care of others we must take care of ourselves. Everyone has their individual tastes when we refer to hobbies. Hobbies can come in many forms. Some hobbies are relaxing, fulfilling, and serve to cleanse the body and soul. Others re-vitalize, re-invent, and rebuild our mental capacities and enable us to think more clearly and concisely. Turning to the opposite spectrum of hobbies there are those that...
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...Banking regulations limit lending for specific modes of affordable and green housing. A. Trent Richens (000331538) English Composition I (TBP1) Task 3 – Cause and Effect Essay 11/2/13 Western Governors University Banking regulations limit lending for specific modes of affordable and green housing. Banking regulations limit lending to specific types of housing, these regulations limit the ability to construct affordable and, greener types of construction, causing negative effects on the free market. An acceptable level of comfort in for life requires a small number of necessities: housing, sanitary facilities, education, employment, and food and water. Without these, life becomes miserable in a very short amount of time. For a vast amount of people around the world, home ownership is a dream, an ambition for life, that thing we’ve wanted since being a child. The security of having something that you can call your own and do what you want with, when you want with it appeals to most people. For many this dream will never become a reality, and for many others even once having it doesn’t mean they can keep it. The problem is todays housing is just not affordable. With all of the other demands that expense a person’s income it’s difficult to make this dream a reality. Financial policy drives the lack of affordable housing. Due primarily to the types of construction that can are fundable through the current financial system of lending the options are limited to less...
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